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At the right, Linden and Maple, moved for Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. Incidentally a screen planting to
the laundry paddock.
PREFACE
NEW and distinct type of nursery is shown in the Westbury
Nurseries in the growing of large trees for immediate landscape
results. No establishment in this country or Europe grows such
a quantity or variety of large trees. The nursery was founded
half a century ago, and many of the trees now available for
moving were planted in the first decade of the business as
specimens, and allowed to attain perfect development. More
than twenty-five acres are devoted to the growing of extra-sized trees ; the trees
being placed 8 to 40 feet apart, permitting ample sunlight, air and soil. The object
is not how cheap, but how perfect. A tree 4 inches in diameter, 20 feet high, may
be in a close crowded block 2 or 3 feet away from adjoining trees. Neither good
roots nor wide top can exist. Our trees are grown wide apart, and such a tree will
be 12 feet from its neighbors, with wide, low-branched top and perfect root system.
The latter is worth many times the former. These trees will give immediate results.
They are not mere promises of future shade and beauty. The large evergreen trees
are 8 to 35 feet high, 10 to 50 years old, and are kept in perfect condition for
transplanting. The usual sizes kept in nurseries, as trees 6 to 14 feet, and evergreens 1 to 5 feet, we offer of the best possible grade.
Arboretum and Test Orchards.
Our arboretum and certain nursery
blocks contain hundreds of new and
rare species of trees from Siberia, Japan, China, Europe and other temperate regions,
that are being tested to determine their value here. Extensive test orchards established over sixty years ago by the late Isaac Hicks have proved that many varieties
thriving inland are inferior to other sorts here.
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At the right, Linden and Maple, moved for Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. Incidentally a screen planting to
the laundry paddock.
PREFACE
NEW and distinct type of nursery is shown in the Westbury
Nurseries in the growing of large trees for immediate landscape
results. No establishment in this country or Europe grows such
a quantity or variety of large trees. The nursery was founded
half a century ago, and many of the trees now available for
moving were planted in the first decade of the business as
specimens, and allowed to attain perfect development. More
than twenty-five acres are devoted to the growing of extra-sized trees ; the trees
being placed 8 to 40 feet apart, permitting ample sunlight, air and soil. The object
is not how cheap, but how perfect. A tree 4 inches in diameter, 20 feet high, may
be in a close crowded block 2 or 3 feet away from adjoining trees. Neither good
roots nor wide top can exist. Our trees are grown wide apart, and such a tree will
be 12 feet from its neighbors, with wide, low-branched top and perfect root system.
The latter is worth many times the former. These trees will give immediate results.
They are not mere promises of future shade and beauty. The large evergreen trees
are 8 to 35 feet high, 10 to 50 years old, and are kept in perfect condition for
transplanting. The usual sizes kept in nurseries, as trees 6 to 14 feet, and evergreens 1 to 5 feet, we offer of the best possible grade.
Arboretum and Test Orchards.
Our arboretum and certain nursery
blocks contain hundreds of new and
rare species of trees from Siberia, Japan, China, Europe and other temperate regions,
that are being tested to determine their value here. Extensive test orchards established over sixty years ago by the late Isaac Hicks have proved that many varieties
thriving inland are inferior to other sorts here.
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